The ongoing farmers’ protest is getting international attention as international pop singer Rihanna and environment teen activist Greta Thunberg tweeted about the issue and expressed their solidarity with the protesters in India, the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) on Wednesday slammed the Congress party and it’s leader Rahul Gandhi for politicising the issue.
BJP leader Sambit Patra said neither Rahul Gandhi nor Rihanna knows anything about agriculture and farmers.
Addressing a press conference that came shortly after Rahul Gandhi’s media interaction, Patra alleged that Rahul Gandhi is provoking violence.
"There is no institution in the country that would stand with anarchists and rioters of 26th January. Are these people associated with Rahul Gandhi, that he is ready to provide legal aid to them?" Patra asked.
He further added, "In 1998, the Congress government in Madhya Pradesh had opened indiscriminate firing at a farmers' rally in the state. 28 farmers were killed. Today, Rahul Gandhi is trying to question us? On what grounds?"
Mr Patra went on to say that why these people who are tweeting on farmers' protest, did not raise their voice when Mahatma Gandhi's statues were vandalised in the US. He further alleged that no one among those who were tweeting for the farmers raised their voices when rioters attacked several Delhi Police personnel with swords and sticks during the Republic Day tractor march in Delhi and vandalised public properties.
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While responding to Rahul Gandhi's charge that the government did not allot much for the defence ministry in Union Budget 2021, Patra said no other government has ever spent so much on modern gadgets as the present government has under PM Modi's leadership.